Exclusion and inclusion of nonwhite ethnic minority groups in 72 North American and European cardiovascular cohort studies.

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Published in PLoS Med on March 01, 2006

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Meghna Ranganathan1, Raj Bhopal

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1: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America.

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